Experience

BenevolentAI

• United Kingdom
• Biotechnology Research
• 200 - 300 Employee

• VP of AI

  • Jul 2022 - Present



Ladder Therapeutics

• Canada
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Artificial Intelligence

  • Mar 2022 - May 2022



GSK

• United Kingdom
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

  • Dec 2018 - Mar 2022

  Head of the GSK.ai Fellowship Programme which equips early-career machine learning researchers with an understanding of the pharmaceutical industry, software engineering best practice and how to translate ML research into tools that will advance the discovery of innovative medicines.

• Business Lead, Innovation in Data Analytics

  • Jan 2016 - Nov 2018

  Remit for identifying and embedding cutting edge data analytics into R&D's Platform Technology and Science organisation.

• Investigator

  • Jul 2004 - Dec 2015

  Design, development and application of computational methodologies for analysing high throughput and high content screening data, target deconvolution of phenotypic response, identification of best molecule, hit expansion, SAR analysis and compound set selection.



The University of Sheffield

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Tripos Research Fellow

  • 2002 - 2004

  Design and development of a novel methodology, based on image recognition, for aligning molecules in 3D. This methodology was incorporated into Certara's GALAHAD software. https://www.certara.com/publication/a-marriage-made-in-torsional-space-using-galahad-models-to-drive-pharmacophore-multiplet-searches/ Design and development of a novel methodology, based on image recognition, for aligning molecules in 3D. This methodology was incorporated into Certara's GALAHAD software. https://www.certara.com/publication/a-marriage-made-in-torsional-space-using-galahad-models-to-drive-pharmacophore-multiplet-searches/



Unilever

• United Kingdom
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Scientist

  • 2000 - 2002

  Developed software to calculate 2D molecular descriptors to enable rapid generation of regression based, predictive models. This software became the Unilever gold standard, having replaced the commercial equivalent. Developed software to calculate 2D molecular descriptors to enable rapid generation of regression based, predictive models. This software became the Unilever gold standard, having replaced the commercial equivalent.



Tessella

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Analyst

  • Oct 1999 - Jun 2000

  Worked on a number of customer site-based, IT projects within the scienti c and engineering industry sectors, including the implementation of a software system to control and monitor robotic arms performing diagnostics in jet engines. Worked on a number of customer site-based, IT projects within the scienti c and engineering industry sectors, including the implementation of a software system to control and monitor robotic arms performing diagnostics in jet engines.